The photo is from a reenactment of the Battle of Fort Sanders.  Photo credit: Tammie McCarroll Burroughs

Bradley County in the Civil War

 

Engagements:
9/18/1863 Cleveland

10/9/1863 Cleveland

11/26/1863 Charleston
11/27/1863 Cleveland

12/28/1863 Charleston
12/22/1863 Cleveland

12/28/1863 Charleston
12/29/1863 Cleveland
4/2/1864 Cleveland

4/13/1864 Cleveland area, Mink Springs
8/17/1864Cleveland

8/18/1864 Charleston
8/19/1864 Charleston

Civil War Defenses of Cleveland
(1863 - 1864) Cleveland: Two unnamed Union redoubts were located on hills overlooking the town from the Southwest.
Winter Camp for the Union Army of the Ohio was encamped in this area, and south along the railroad towards Red Clay, during 1863-64.

Ooltewah Blockhouse
A Union blockhouse guarded the railroad station and the Wolftever Creek trestle on the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad.

Charleston Redoubt (1863 - 1864)
A redoubt was located by the Hiwassee River overlooking the railroad bridge, along with blockhouses on both ends of the bridge from Calhoun.

 

 

 

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